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I dunno, Tiamat is supposed to be the literal goddess that spawns dragons, so that might be an actual size sort of thing. There are some really big Bones kits out there as is, so I could see them doing this.

I have to say I'm having trouble loving the bones. Got my first few and while the price and detail can't be beat, I have issues with cleaning the mold lines without leaving a mess. I'm also not sure the thin bits will ever really work out, though I haven't tried straitening them with hot water yet.

Automatically Appended Next Post: At one point I thought they were going to make all other miniatures obsolete, now I see why they aren't going to.

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Nice to see that the Lovecraftian Gravewailer will be Bonsified; i've had my eye on the metal one for awhile, but prefer plastic. The not-Shub-Niggurath looks like it could be promising, too, but I'll need a clearer shot of it to be sure.

Hopefully you won't have to buy into the fantasy bread-and-butter stuff to make this KS worthwhile, as that's not my genre.

I can see people being a bit soured on Bones just from the flying rodent gak insane amount of models they have. And cleaning is a bit irritating on many models. I didn't get much other than paint and Dragons Don't Share last time because I have just so... many... bones that I will not be painting for a long time.

Once my daughter can hold a brush and model without trying to eat them, it is on!

Joyboozer wrote:There's some really nice stuff there but the last two campaigns have really soured me on bones.

Same here - but I'll be in for terrain still!

Out of curiosity why?

For me it was seeing also those beautiful sculpts loose so much detail.
A lot of what I got in the first one droop no matter how often they were straightened.
Kickstarter 2 I bought a lot less, having to buy a "set" to get a few I wanted was a bit crap.
I'd go in for a big beastie or some terrain as they tend to be pretty solid and dont loose detail.
I do love metal and resin reaper stuff though and always will.

Not sure. If they are not interested in distributing anywhere outside of the US, then:

1) The shipping charges will be even more bonkers than last time. I ended up paying $193 for my base $100 pledge, and the US export shipping situation has only worsened since then.

2) The pound is weaker than it has been for quite a while. Suddenly these "ultra-cheap" models aren't so much anymore.

3) It is almost impossible to buy them retail in the UK, and where you can, it's essentially a £=$ scenario, making them actually more expensive than equivalent metals in many cases.

Separately from that, I did not like how Bones II was run. I thought that the core pledge was a quite malnourished and variable in quality, at the expense of $50 add-ons which contained such strange mixes of stuff that I didn't want a single one. I was quite impressed by Dragons Don't Share though. In general, the larger stuff is of less interest since:

1) the lower detail level becomes very apparent at larger scales, possibly because they have to use more rigid plastic - you feel like you're painting a child's toy at points.

2) I have no effective storage solution for anything that large. It is going to either sit in a giant box, or get dusty or damaged.

I still have so many unpainted models from the first two that I'll almost certainly never paint, but.....

For the big models this material is fantastic, the undead dragons from the first kickstarter are the centre pieces of my fantasy army. Dragons don't share from the second is just awesome. That Tiamat, so need.

I just hope it is run better than the second one, there were some models in the expansions that I wanted but couldn't justify the $50 add-on.

Also wish Reaper would sort out a UK distributer, as there just isn't a good way to get hold of them over here.

it's the quiet ones you have to look out for. Their the ones that change the world, the loud ones just take the credit for it.

Reaper forum posters said to get rid of mold lines, you can use sanding needles. I use a jeweler's engraving pen, an X-Acto knife, and jeweler's files, myself.

What is is with distributors, anyway? Reaper said they were dissatisfied with the retailer-distributor model, which would cherry pick which products to carry, effectively making your consumer choices for you. Internationals should be able to get *some* Bones. Terrain seems to be selling particularly well on MM...

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